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Ever thought of writing technical articles, it could be an opportunity
to begin a new career. It's also a chance to contribute back to the
Microsoft Access community.

Database Solutions for Microsoft Access | databasedev.co.uk - was
started around 2002 (under a different name) to provide a place were
users of Microsoft Access could find articles, tips and samples that
may provide help in what they were wanting to achieve. It was started
by one individual who had decided to build their own Microsoft Access
help site that would be available to their community.

databasedev.co.uk would like to offer the opportunity for everyone
to contribute their original articles, ideas, tips, whatever they
would like to offer to the Microsoft Access community.

Why Write?

Writing is an effort. It takes time, requires patience and work,
and you are subjecting yourself to criticism when you publish something.

It could also prove tremendously rewarding. It can be therapeutic,
and it shows the world a part of you that they might never see. People
you never have met, never spoken to, will gain an understanding of
you. They will learn about your skills and abilities.

Benefits of writing for databasedev.co.uk

So why should you write for databasedev.co.uk?

Well, there are quite a few benefits that we can provide.

Exposure for your work - databasedev.co.uk serves over 350,000
pages every month and this is increasing monthly!

Author Page - We will provide you with
a link on our author/columnists page, a separate home page with
your biography that you are free to link to your company, your homepage
or whatever.

Payment - We will pay approx $30-50 per published article via
PayPal (subject to content). It's not much, but it's something.
As an ad supported site, our finances are limited, but as we grow
and develop better revenue streams, this is subject to grow.

Contribution Policies

Rules and regulations:

Topics

We are a Microsoft Access based community. As a result, we like to
see articles on any subject dealing with Microsoft Access Design,
Development, Programming, Security, Deployment. Any version, whatever
your specialty is, your source of knowledge, pick something you think
you're good at and send it to us.

If you have a review of a product or book we will also be interested
in looking over this.

If you have a question, feel free to query us via email about your
topic.

Copyright

Whilst databasedev.co.uk does not ask for copyright to your work,
we would appreciate it.

You retain copyright, but give us the distribution or publication
rights on this web site in perpetuity. You should also be aware that
we may modify the document in relation to formatting etc. to ensure
that it will fit in with the overall design of the website.

We want to give your flexibility and freedom, but we need to balance
this with the need to promote and grow our site. Any articles that
we pay you for, you agree to give us 120 days of exclusive distribution
rights, meaning you will not publish them elsewhere for 120 days from
the date of publication. Since we may not publish it for a few weeks
after we get it, be sure you account for this.

We are happy to accept articles that are published elsewhere, but
we do not pay for them and the author is responsible for ensuring
he is not violating any other agreements.

And you are free to re-publish or submit the article to any other
site after it has been released on databasedev.co.uk for 120 days.

Getting Started

So how do you go about getting started? You can email a draft to
webmaster@databasedev.co.uk
We'll be happy to take a look and let you know what we think.

Your article can be written in any text editor, WYSIWYG package or
Microsoft Word. Please be aware that we may need to modify the article
design to allow us to ensure that this fits in with our web site design.
Please also include any graphics required to support the article in
a useable format (.jpg, .gif or .png)